Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery cleansing Drums were hidden and used

Drums were hidden and used at various times

hambone & juba pattin’

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from the 1950s to the 1990s

ritual medicine

Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery cleansing Drums were hidden and usedIn Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah. Analyzing the historical exigencies of